The bookshelf for the 200's is so unpopulated that the few selections stand upright, sufficiently fanned out, increasing their appeal.

I took this one down as the boring conversation progressed from library procedure to costume parade - "just like last year's Halloween" - and the illustrations took me back to the Jerusalem mosques. The book is just like those.

Tim looked over my shoulder and said, "Chinese." Um, Eastern but not Chinese. Very pretty, so very, very pretty.

"Captivating," everyone agreed.

I could see filling the Religion shelf with these books by Demi. There's one on Jesus, Mary, Gandhi, Mother Teresa ... Saint Nicholas.